#aught

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane. ↗

— Robert Frost

#laugh

The earth laughs in flowers. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#laughter #laugh

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#goodness #laughter #laugh

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#daughters #expectations #fathers #ideals #perception

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#strength #violence #violence

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#athena #heroes-of-olympus #hubris #mother-knows-best #mothers-and-daughters

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#julier-marillier #quote #quotes #trials

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#naughty #sex #sex

You have as much laughter as you have faith. ↗

— Martin Luther

#laughter #faith

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #creativity #dating #death #family